Benjamnin F. Butler, Butler's Book: Autobiography and Personal Reminiscences of Major-General Benjamin Butler

Seymour, Governor, reference to, 758.

Shaffer, Col. J. W., valuable services of, 639; on Butler's staff, 894; at Newburyport, 404.

Shaw, Lemuel, Esq., on Charlestown annexation case, 1001; Butler's last act toward, 1002.

Shenandoah Valley, Sheridan in, 901.

Shepley, Geo. F., anecdote of, 143; appointed colonel, 305.

Shepley, General, acts investigated, 850; tribute to, 850; sent to Fortress Monroe, 871; Governor of Louisiana, 896.

Sheridan, reference to, 647; arrives at Haxalls, 653; confers with Butler, 653; declines to obey Butler's orders, 654; crosses James River, 686; reference to, 669, 817, 867; joins Grant, 901.

Sherman, General (not William T.) reference to, 860.

Sherman, Captain, recruiting for special service, 305.

Sherman, Gen. W. T., 594; Grant's fears for safety of, 598; reference to, 779, 782, 827, 868, 909; Halleck's treatment of, 876-877; negotiations with Johnston, 876; named for major general 877-878; quoted upon West Point, 890; terms of surrender between Johnston, 910-912; his obstinacy, 913; reasons for rejecting convention of Johnston, 913-914; at New Orleans, 896.

Ship Island, Butler at, 351-358; Butler moves troops from, 694; Phelps' proclamation at, 896.

Sickles, General, persuades Buchanan<*>to withdraw an order revoking parade of troops, 218. in Halleck's letter to Grant, 878; the hero of Gettysburg, 878; object of jealousy of Republican politicians, 878.

Signal Tower, Weitzel awaits orders at, 784.

Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, 163, 165, 166; ordered to report at Faneuil Hall, 170; leaves for Washington, 174; march through Baltimore, 176, 180, 205; ordered to Relay House, 225; feeling toward Ross Winans, 227-228; company escorts Butler in Baltimore, 234.

Sixth Maine Battery clears mob at New Orleans, 376.

Sixth Corps, reference to, 858.

Sixty-Second North Carolina, a deserter from gives information, 795.

Sixth U. S. colored troops raid into Virginia and North Carolina, 617-618.

Sixty-Seventh Ohio attacked, 649.

Slavery, its perpetuation the cause of the war, 128; how and why it lead to rebellion and Butler to the front, 128, 160.

Slidell and Mason episode, McClellan's reference to, 577.

Slocumb, Mrs., Cora, story of, 423, 425.

Smith, Rev. S. F., expounds Calvinistic doctrine, 60.

Smith, Win., Butler studies law with, 71-72.

Smith, Wm. P., transportation at Baltimore and plea to Colonel Jones, 180.

Smith, Captain, aid rendered by at Fort St. Philip, 368; carries Butler to New Orleans, 370; remark concerning Mumford, 371, allows gunboat McRae to become cartel, 390.

Smith, Brigadier-General, C. S. A., letter from Davis, 458; report on Farragut's passing Vicksburg, 478.

Smith, Maj.-Gen., Wm. F., ordered to report to Butler, 630; favors co-operative movement, 636; bearer of letter to Grant, 637; moves up the James River, 639; objects to Butler's plan for surprising Richmond, 644; destroys railroad, 643, 645; letter from, 648; orders from Butler to, 650; prepares for battle at Drury's Bluff, 657; ordered to send relief to Gilmore, 665-666; ordered to join Grant, 671; attempts to capture Petersburg, 687, 693; interminable reconnoissance, the failure of, 687; hides from Butler messenger, 690; mendacious despatch from, 690; seeks quarrel with Butler, 694; unofficial letter of Butler, 694; assigned to the command of the Eighteenth Corps, 695; order revoked, 696; sent into retirement, 696; letter containing calumnies upon Grant and Butler, 696, 698, 713, 716; letter quoted, 700, 712, 713; official report, 702-703; his career reviewed, 714, 716; reference to, 712, 827, 857, 858, 861; as Halleck's friend, 871, 873; Halleck gives command of Tennessee expedition to, 873, 874.

Smith, Capt., Melancthon, commander of naval forces of the James River, 744; urges completion of Dutch Gap Canal, 750; relieved of his command on the James River, 750.

Somerby, G. A., Esq., on the Storm King scurvy case, 1018-1020.

Somers, Recorder, taken through mob at New Orleans, 374-375.

Soule, Pierre, spokesman in New Orleans Conference, 378-505; placed on Relief Committee, 388; treacherous conduct of, 391.

Speech, Butler's, at Lowell in ten-hour law election contest, 100, 105.

speed, Attorney-General of the United States, 1007.

Spottsylvania Court-House, Grant's march to, 647; reference to battle, 710.

spring Hill, occupied by Hinks, 642.

Stackpole, Maj. J. L., on Butler's staff, 897.

Stafford, Col. S. H., on Butler's staff, 896.

Stanbury, Attorney-General, counsel for President Johnson, 929-930.

Stansbury, on Milligan vs. United States case, 1007.

Stafford, Colonel, 496.

Stanton, E. M., interview with before starting for New Orleans, 335-336; notified of need of provisions at Ship Island, 358; commands Butler's course at New Orleans, 386-387; writes Halleck regarding Vicksburg, 456;